skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Would it though? From what I understand EU has way better social safety nets, yet much smaller entrepreneurship rates compared to USA.

This is definitely a multiple factor problem, and health care is just one of them. A couple obvious ones - social acceptance/rejection of this as a path, and government/financial friction. If you have only been exposed to the US, it's pretty shocking how hard it is to get a company up and running in many countries. One of the biggies is fairly direct access to capital with the right risk appetite, which itself is complex.
Exatcly volatility is the name of the game. They do not care about the direction as long as it moves and if it moves a lot twice as good.

Market makers always win.
Then whom did you accuse of hypocrisy and why?
Every brokerage house has this problem. If their client goes bankrupt, then the brokerage house has to eat the loss.
Some of your response is a non-sequitur. The argument on the table is:

> Toyota makes fairly boring products of the last century.

Toyota sells around 10mm cars a year. Only about a fifth of those sales take place in Canada, US, and Mexico. The demand picture for EVs and vehicles in general is not uniform across geography. Some places like small cars, others big; some places like EVs, others have no chargers; some places buy new cars, others can't afford it.

BTW Mexico has a different mix of vehicles because much of the first-world production happens within the country. And Chile has the highest median income of all Latin America. Extrapolating from some perception about the Chilean or Mexican auto market is a poor way to characterize LatAm in general.

> On the other hand there is another yuppie fanboy harping about "muh hilix" despite the fact that Toyota has lied through its teeth about rust in North America for ~30yr, the Hilux/LC aren't outstandingly (in the literal sense) popular in Asia and people in Africa/ME will bolt a machine gun to anything that runs regardless of brand.

OK so this is a bit more on topic. The Hilux is a great truck (even ISIS likes it) but I'm not talking about the Hilux and yuppies. I'm telling you that there are people who make $400/mo who are proud to buy a 10yo Toyota. They don't approach vehicle purchases the same way that an American would. The concept that a car is "last century" is absolutely ridiculous to that segment of the auto market. Those people don't buy these vehicles because of status, they buy them because the local mechanic tells them that the motors don't need to be rebuilt so often.

Case study: Ecuador. Import tariffs make autos cost approximately double what they cost in the US, perhaps more. A Ford Raptor costs US$150k. Income disparity means there isn't a vibrant middle class. Fuel is subsidized; the country produces a half-million barrels of oil daily and has three refineries. Much of the transit (including in the Quito metropolitan area) occurs through mountains where roads are poor quality. Road closures due to landslides are common. A used Suzuki Grand Vitara that costs $700 in the US might go for $4,000 in Ecuador.

You have this concept that people in the third world model their choices on the preferences of rich people. I don't believe that's true. Income disparity is so broad, and the middle class so narrow, that most non-rich people in LatAm just make do and try to survive.
Donated to this project a while back, first FOSS project I donated to. Worth 10x as much. No Vim keybind extension even comes close to how well it works for me. Only downside is that sometimes I need to go to chromium/ff for websites that don't work with QB's webengine.
I always liked the Austin Allegro styling.
Robinhood -> best picked name ever.

Steal from the poor, give to the rich :)

And all the while the poor where believing it was the other way around.
This is just so ignorant, of course a rich island nation will perform better than a poor country in South America.
It's because it's a complicated problem, and kubernetes is not good to simplify it.
yeah counter-party risk can verge into systemic risk, none of these moves by brokers are surprising
> If the software otherwise does what you want, but you need some particular change, fork away.

You'll then have to maintain the fork, re-applying your changes whenever the upstream repo is updated
Yes, I follow her words and actions that are publicly available, as I do many politicians who might be an ally to my agenda. I take issue with the level of effort behind what she’s “tried,” and I’m not sure she’s had enough time to do enough anyway. But I’m skeptical she will make much headway, and based on the way Obama’s administration effectively sidelined anything to the left of his Big Corp friendly policies I don’t think that’s an unreasonable skepticism.
Robinhood isn't only limited by its terms and conditions; there are also laws it has to comply with.
You're assuming people have the money to contribute to an HSA and an employer when many do not.
Yes. I agree he was a great host. Not sure if there are torrents/archives but you can find it on iPlayer catchup if you're interested in watching the current ones (assuming you have a way to access iPlayer).
Maybe you hit upon it: "work for themselves".

For every painter that owns his own company, a dozen guys are climbing ladders and slinging paint buckets for him.
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https://opensyllabus.org/
See MIT OCW coursework. It is usually pretty in line with what they use there.
Sounds like you're agreeing with me? Not sure what your point is. Obviously these trades are not based on any sort of fundamental analysis.

Wall street made a bet and now retailers are getting tagged as bad actors for taking the other side.
I was thinking of something like a cap on rent increase (e.g. max 10% rent increase or something like that), not banning rent increase entirely, if it matters. Maybe with exceptions if the landlord improves (not just maintains) the property.
"I'm sorry, are you for real? You want to pay against the housing market and you're worried we won't pay you?"
So now Tesla is said to be innovating when they adopt old technology invented by others? Truly Tesla is the Apple of cars, getting credit for old shit just because the fanboys know little about the domain outside their favored brand.
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A broker is nit your friend who refuses to buy junk food for you because he suspects you’ll be sick.

A broker is yiur fiduciary/agent; their discretion at refusing your order should be limited to well defined circumstances, and I would be surprised if this is one of them.

(I would not be surprised if the EULA lets them do what they want, but I would be surprised if it would actually be found legal in court —- though it will likely take ages to test because it likely contains a binding arbitration clause)
Intelligence is overrated. It's one piece of the puzzle. If we look for "one factor" that's responsible for success we are going to be searching for a long time.

Income is a more robust metric because it is a somewhat natural combination of many personal characteristics.
These are shame-based punishments, what happens if these people have no shame?
Just wanna say thanks for this library (fuzzyset). It's great and was easy to implement / test against.
Or this could simply be a concept car where aesthetics drive design. Then the reality of getting it to follow safety regulations hits and all the cool things that aren’t great for production get revised more mainstream. Just as I suspect the cybertruck will...
is there a good alternative to robinhood? I really like robinhood, but what they have done today is super dumb.
but every day it gets worse
> Elastic effectively killed Elasticsearch

Good grief, what a way to put it. You could just as well say Amazon killed it. But of course we can't say that
"These clowns" e.g. Citron and Melvin Capital. I know.
The fact that Ted Cruz and AOC completely agree on this shows you how unprecedented this all is.
Your comment is not a gotcha. She'd clearly prefer that stock trading not be frozen at all. Freezing purchases but not sales is a gift to short sellers because retail investors can only lower the price, which will induce more people to panic sell.
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For fun, I built a search experience for their product catalog using App Search this morning.
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Jack Ma was too high profile to disappear, from my Chinese co-workers, Jack Ma's shares have shrunken to almost nothing, this is just another one of the many "forced nationalization" except Jack gets to keep some of his assets.

background info: With the trade war and sanctions on HK, the CCP is running low on currency reserves and is going after private property and ownership. Expect more Chinese billionaires to disappear for a while and happily praise their relinquishment of ownership.

Side track but similar situation in S. Korea: Current Korean administration is also trying to force Jay Lee (Samsung Heir & ex-CEO) to sell a huge chunk of his shares to the government (would force the share prices to tank). Word on the street is Samsung is going to nationalize which would spell disaster for the Korean economy which relies 25% of its GDP on Samsung.
We are talking about charging stations and obviously Tesla is getting massive rebates. Free money to serve its own interest and not the electric car industry. It is not providing the service to all electric cars by avoiding standardization.

Again costs are socialized and profits privatized.
More like "Let them have shortcake". This is absolutely ridiculous.
Yea... you know other exchanges that “I” can’t use, like Canadian ones are still allowing buying right?
It's the sarcasm, not the heresy.
Show HN: Programming with your own words (in English)
Hi HN! Fernando here. I am really looking forward to getting some feedback about Hupreter (https://hupreter.com) from you all.

I started working on Hupreter a year ago, mostly exploring what was possible. But some time before that, I started playing with NLP (natural language processing) and discovering what was currently possible. At first, I was using it on news articles but then I thought that it might be possible to use this to program in natural languages (like English), instead of programming languages. How cool would it be if you could just tell your computer what to do! Your computer, your phone, or any machine.

Most of the work has gone into creating a semantic engine that aims to 'understand' the meaning behind a piece of text. Once that worked, I focused on the second stage which is converting that understanding into instructions in a programming language.

I am really happy to put this out there and get some feedback. Hopefully some interest too. This is just the beginning, it will keep growing to handle more and more tasks.

https://hupreter.com

Thank you! Let me know what you think.
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to the extent that the market needs speculators, I think it is part of the "goal" of capital markets. a market of only long-term risk-averse allocators wont have the liquidity necessary to create fair prices nor is it likely to attract as much capital when companies issue shares, as a market that has a "healthy" amount of speculation.
I'm enjoying the discussion, thanks! Elm really does sound heavily opinionated, but that's often for the better, as you say. How's the tooling, besides the compiler+error messages? I've seen a web-based interactive editor, but I assume that's not _the_ way to write Elm.
What could possibly be wrong with mocking the Hunger Games?
I know that France is the butt of many jokes about work, "no French word for entrepreneurship," but in my experience almost every business I interacted with around socialist Paris was a small, independent business. This was the unintentional consequence of labor laws. <50 employees fall under one set of labor laws, >50 employees you're in a tight spot until you're >1000 employees. Then the additional overhead of benefits for those employees is subsidized by economies of scale.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918577
I’m gonna say something controversial: the vast, vast majority of open source software is garbage. Partly that is due to the rise of developers just writing slop to promote themselves with. The existence of “Celebrity” devs isn’t necessarily a problem, but the culture that has evolved over the last few years seems more focused on the celebrity part than the dev part.
Income for the 24-35 year old men has stayed about the same over the last 40-50 years. And women have seen a huge rise in salary over that timespan. The price of houses has gone up but that's mostly caused by them getting larger.

Half of men in the 24-35 year old range will do worse than their father. And the other half better. And most women will be making more money than their mothers.

[0] - https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
Clickable link: https://hupreter.com/
If it was the answer, then RH could have instead only forbidden margin trades and restricted to cash.

Additionally, other retail brokers selling to Citadel Capital have done the exact same (Schwab comes to mind, but not only).

Other brokers however (fidelity), have not. If the short squeeze is to happen tomorrow, this seems an unlikely coincidence that those retail brokers affiliated with Citadel Capital tool positions that would ultimately deflate the stock.

I don't see how GP can assure that no short sellers is behind those moves.
Moderated forums and moderated Usenet groups both have the characteristic of not being subject to the whims of a central platform. Contrast Facebook groups and subreddits.
99.99% of people who buy lotteries know it's a gamble rather than a moneymaking strategy. Nobody is advising people buying lottery tickets that they should borrow money to buy as many of them as possible because they will make a nice easy profit at the expense of the rich. It's often said lotteries are a tax on people that don't understand probability, but at least people playing don't think they're doing arbitrage.

And governments often do restrict other forms of gambling associated with more problematic losses. There are those who would like them more restrictions on it, and those who would like fewer, but at least the latter group don't argue that without loosening gambling laws, the little guy doesn't stand a chance of wealth improvement.
The short interest was above 100%, so there was naked shorting going on, although no direct evidence linking it to hedge funds (but they would've been most of the short float, so probably yes).
Consider searching .edu sites for syllabi - every syllabus I have ever received had the required textbooks on it.

You could also try searching for ISBN's on university domains, but I imagine this will be less consistent.

My university partnered with Barnes and Noble and published a list of required books per course as a bundle option. If a course catalog is available you can further refine your search based on course numbers (like FIN 4401 or CSE 4096, etc). Look for any partnerships a university has with a bookseller.

Those are some thoughts... good luck!
The world is not divided into two camps, not should it be. Some people are neither with nor against you; they've got their own things going on.
I don't understand what these investors do, I don't think it makes sense for most of them and I would advice against it.

However, the whole point of Robinhood is to allow people to buy the stocks they want.

Would they also have stopped people buying Tesla a few years ago? This has proven to be right bet. However given r/teslainvestorsclub strongly pushing for the stock, could be interpreted as the same thing.

Robinhood seems to just decide who can be a winner.
Cyberpunk 2077 developer’s shares surge after Elon Musk said he likes the game
It's not that hard to compete with AWS. AWS is scatterbrained and provides a really bad UX and as-is integrations where the "is" is not great. You might lose some business to them, but the cases we've seen lately aren't that: Elastic cleared almost half a billion dollars last year.

What open source does mean is surrendering your monopoly over what you build. Amazon may capture some of your value as a result, but that's part of the deal. I wrote about it here:

https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
The open source from your list largely falls under #1. They didn't open source their primary product, but rather their complements. That is sustainable, whereas #2 is not when a permissive license is involved.

Strategy #1 is self-interested and doesn't require any real zealotry and survives the harvesting stage just fine.

Open sourcing your core product with a permissive license is generally going to be at odds with business goals at some point, and if you're in business, often the thing to give is the license.
It's compatible, but if Postgresql wanted to go harder copyleft and switch the license for future releases, they'd need to get pretty broad agreement, and that would be difficult, there are a lot of corps / enterprise players in the ecosystem, and things like (a)GPLv3 are often totally banned. Is GPLv3 software even allowed in the Apple iphone App Store? The Windows Phone app store?
I think the problem is that most people use mobile phones, rather then computer workstations. In the 90's everyone had a proper PC workstation. But now people have touch screens instead. You wont type long blog posts or participate in lengthy forum discussions using a touch screen.
If you would put a graph with PC sales vs pads and phones showing the last 30 years you would see where it shifted from creating/consuming to passive/consuming. There are still normal PC users, it's just that the number have now grown much, while the number of touch screen users has grown exponentially.
Didn't Parlor just get shutdown because they did not moderate their user base comments fast enough?

If we hold a social media company liable for not being able to scale fast enough shouldn't a company offering financial services be held to at least that level of standard?
This is how the old ASP.NET Web Forms UpdatePanel worked.
If you can, update your hosts file to point reddit.com to 127.0. 0.1
It does because they let them buy on margin.

Interactive Brokers hiked the long margin to 100% (and short to 300%) which is a reasonable way for a broker to behave.

Killing the ability to buy is not.
This right here. Only allowing sells appears to be blatantly anti-retail investor, intended to help drive down prices for those with short positions needing to be closed.
Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.
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Maybe I haven't seen enough great devs but I see a lot of great devs stumble into a system or framework and they're doing their best but they want to be that great dev and work fast and ... they stumble though stuff that a mediocre dev who knows the system knows better than to do.
Those elites making the rules and the power plays need to remember: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F Kennedy

Elites: better leave some safety valves in the system. People have been getting angry in the last year.
Are they really going to be investigated? Like honestly.
Exactly - it really feels like a watershed moment of some kind, though I'm not exactly sure how
"Investigations for thee and not for me." Or, I think no investigation will occur.
I feel like there's some paradigm we haven't reached yet. As the parent said, bookmarks and history are just 2 different views of the same underlying data and tabs provide an isolation of the context

If we go back to the root of what the web is, we have a graph where nodes are documents and edges are a user clicking on a link at a given time, and the user wants to keep a few of the documents in the current context. So not only is there's a graph, which is not easy to represent and navigate, but the edges depend on time. Maybe some VR thing can help us see something new here
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attorneys for the plaintiffs, declined to say exactly what ingredients the lab tests revealed.

I like a good corporate-do-bad story as much as the next guy, but unless they tell me what the not tuna is, it hurts the paintif's credibility in my eyes.
Melvin Capital closed out their short positions, so what exactly does Citadel stand to gain here?
The Hunter scandal was just one random example of countless examples of censorship by BigTech and M5M. I could care less about the laptop story.

I care about the censorship story. One corrupt family can't destroy a democracy, but a loss of free speech rights is guaranteed to.
How about, god forbid, constrain ourselves and only use these platforms to keep in touch and share pleasant pet images?

Why in fuck's name does everybody and their cat fight holy wars with each other? I feel that is the real issue, the platforms are just symptoms of it.
That's pretty much it.

I remember seeing something similar during Tesla's run up, where firms would force individual investors to sell their call options because the investor would have tax liability once their call options were profitable.

Course, it also had the effect of reducing the amount they would have made by forcing them to sell early.

Tails we win, heads you lose.
TD Ameritrade, Webull, and public.com join Robinhood preventing stock purchases
They would have different risk profiles depending on what their clients are actually doing. RH probably has much greater net exposure than Fidelity since they have a greater share of meme investors in their customer base. Fidelity definitely has a less gameified interface as well.

Corporate risk controls are also not a hard science, different risk teams can and do come to different conclusions on the same issue.
There's no way to get the raw data from this site, is there? I have long been interested in doing some analysis of how syllabi have changed over time, but that doesn't seem possible with this interface.
While there will be a few folks that will prosper from basic income, I can’t say I’m interested in paying people to pursue things that are more like hobbies. For every entrepreneur or community volunteer that makes a difference, I fear 9 others will set their sights on being gaming streamers or will just sit around writing blogposts. If you aren’t adding value somewhere and are able minded and able bodied, I don’t want to invest my money in you.
Henry George held that belief on steroids and thought that, unless you taxed away the site value of land, then almost all of the benefits of any good policy or improved economic activity would accrue to landowners.
This is not even accurate in the smallest sense. This is a brokerage firm. It is heavily regulated by financial law.

They are not "allowed to control what happens on their platform." in the sense of Twitter. They have a fiduciary responsibility to their clients and the reliability of their platform is actually part of their ability to operate as a brokerage.

The service being free or not has NO impact on the rules they operate under as a brokerage.
Is there any momentum behind these ideas? I don't have any idea what the state of US healthcare reform is.
So Facebook is afraid of Telegram? Got it.
See also Bret Victor's talk, "The Future of Programming". The conceit: it's 1973, he describes (with an overhead projector and transparencies) some then-innovative ideas that he hopes will be adopted in the future.

http://worrydream.com/dbx/
never been to game stop, but there is one next to my supermarket. I see almost always 2-3 groups of people in there, never empty. Germany though.
why would you ever use it? to experience random outages and poor execution?
Any creation of affordable housing contributes to slowing down increasing prices.

Many countries do this by putting legal limits against gentrification.